Robert Farris Thompson on Soundcheck

Author Robert Farris Thompson joins us to discuss his new book Tango: The Art History of Love,
which explores the cultural roots of the Argentinean dance form.
Thompson is a renowned Yale art historian, and Publishers Weekly calls
his new book "an antidote to those trite coffee-table books that treat
the tango with purple prose." We then turn our attention to the Oral
History of American Music archive (OHAM), which is housed at Yale and
is the place to go for an insiders' look at the history of
American music. We're joined by OHAM founding director Vivian Perlis
and associate director Libby Van Cleve. Their new book,